Ep. 435 – CRC 2021 Highlights: Mike DeGagne, Vice President of Sales at Quantilope

Welcome to the CRC 2021 Highlights Series. Recorded live in Dallas, this series is bringing interviews straight to you from exhibitors, speakers and attendees at this year’s event. In this interview, host Jamin Brazil interviews Mike DeGagne, Vice President of Sales at Quantilope. More about CRC 2021: https://www.insightsassociation.org/conference/crc-2021  Find Mike Online: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldegagne/  Website: https://www.quantilope.com/  Find Jamin Online: Email: [email protected]  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaminbrazil  Find Us Online:  Twitter: www.twitter.com/happymrxp  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/happymarketresearch  Facebook: www.facebook.com/happymrxp  Website: www.happymr.com  Music:  “Clap Along” by Auditionauti: https://audionautix.com  [00:00:00] Jamin Brazil: Live CRC. Gosh, I don't even know how many of these I've done. But this is an honor to have Quantilope with me. I've got Mike DeGagne, VP. Quantilope is the name of the business. They actually started out in Germany and now have a global presence. Mike, welcome to the podcast. [00:00:16] Mike DeGagne: Thanks for having me. It's my second time. [00:00:18] Jamin Brazil: I know. Now, the first time was a long-form interview that we did. [00:00:21] Mike DeGagne: I think it was, yeah. [00:00:23] Jamin Brazil: And pre-pandemic, is that right? [00:00:25] Mike DeGagne: Yes. It was my first month on the job so I didn't know anything. But I hopefully sounded like I did. [00:00:32] Jamin Brazil: Well, a lot has transpired since that particular moment and time. Let's talk a little bit about Quantilope. Tell us about the business. [00:00:39] Mike DeGagne: So I think it was three years ago when we did the initial one. I was the first US hire. Now, we have about 70 people in the US. We've grown considerably. I have 40 people on my team. We are hiring like crazy for sales, consulting, research, office administration. The whole deal for New York. We've grown out of our capabilities. We started out as a Quant solution for automation. We automated all these point solutions for doing research for the survey system, the data cleaning, waiting, fielding, visualization, stats package. Now, we've recently acquired and built on top a qual solution, video qual solution. We are combining qual and quant together. We are trying to overcome the insights dilemma. [00:01:20] Jamin Brazil: The qual solution that you've bolted on is asynchronous,